When you hear the name Leonardo da Vinci, do you imagine the famous painting called The Mona Lisa? Yes, Leo was a great artist, but he wasn't just great at art. He was a brilliant inventor and an extraordinary architect. He invented vehicles and machines way ahead of his time. His sketchbook contained many models of machines and vehicles. Leo was interested in human anatomy and spent hours upon hours dissecting corpses to discover how humans worked. This gave him an idea of ​​how certain muscles moved certain bones. Leonardo thought these things could be applied to a machine. Unlike most of Leo's inventions, Leo apparently built the robotic knight. “If Leonardo da Vinci's self-propelled chariot was the first working design of a robotic vehicle, then the robotic knight would have been the first humanoid robot, a true 15th-century C-3PO,” says Christopher Lampton. The knight didn't survive long enough for people to know exactly what he did, but based on Leo's writings, scientists have an idea of ​​how he worked. Apparently, the wooden robot was able to sit, move and even use its jaw. His writings indicated that it was driven by pulleys and gears. In 2002, a robotics expert named Mark Rosheim used Da Vinci's notes to recreate it. Some of the concepts were used by Rosheim to create designs for planetary exploration robots. Who knows, if the robot had been mass-produced, current robotics would have been more advanced than it is now. But a wooden robot wasn't Leonardo da Vinci's only invention. He also created a design for a tank that would have been devastating in war. While working for Ludovico Sforza, Leo came up with what might have been his deadliest war machine of his time: the arm...... middle of paper ...... machine moving in Leo's notebooks was an interesting design for a self-propelled car. The drawings drawn in his notebooks don't really show the mechanism inside. So today's engineers had to guess what made it move. The best guess is that the mechanism used was similar to that of a clock. But for some strange reason, Da Vinci didn't create the machine. Leo thought what he had drawn was just a toy – which it wasn't. had it been created, applications for the machine would have followed. Long story short, Da Vinci was an incredibly brilliant man. His inventions would have completely changed the course of history. Today's textbooks might have said something about the steampunk era that might have existed if Leo's inventions had been mass produced. War, cities, flight and daily life would have been very different from what we know today.